13 AND 15, HAWKSMILL STREET (See details for further address information)

13 and 15 Hawksmill Street are two houses and part of another, built in the 15th century as one house with a three-cell half-H plan form. They were subdivided into three tenements in the 19th century and at one time served as The Queens Head Inn. Number 13 is a single-storey building with attics, which includes a former open hall. Numbers 11 and 15 feature jettied wings that are two storeys high. The buildings are timber-framed and plastered, with plaintiled roofs and both axial and external chimneys made of red brick, along with a large 17th-century hall chimney constructed of gault brick. There is one 20th-century flat-roofed dormer. The ground floor has late 19th-century sash windows with large panes, while the first storey of No. 11 has an 18th-century casement with leaded lights, and No. 15 features a 19th-century small pane sash. The entrance doors are 19th and 20th-century six-panelled designs. Number 13 contains a single-bay open hall with a smoke-encrusted coupled-rafter roof. The cross-wing that now includes No. 15 has a cross-passage entrance, with part of a two-centred arched front door that remains blocked. The framing is plain, and the roof is coupled-rafter. A large open fireplace from the 16th or 17th century was added to the hall, backing onto the cross-passage, and an upper floor was inserted into the hall in the 17th century. The second cross-wing, now part of No. 11, was reroofed in the 16th or 17th century parallel to the street, creating the false impression that it is structurally part of that house.